tooling around South
Dakota in the soon-to-be-introduced GS. The Flocks liked the GS look, discovering
that the Admiral Blue with white stripes grew on them as time passed.
By
the following summer, the couple from East Greenwich, Rhode Island, decided
they had to have a GS, but where to find one? The cars seemed to be all gobbled
up until an area Corvette show turned up a dealer who had a new 96.
"Does
it have a red interior?" Randy wanted to know. It did. Randy remembered,
"On the day we went to look at the car, I said to Judy, Were
just going up there to look. And she goes, No, were going
up there to buy!"
They
bought the Grand Sport and, in february 1997, sent it to